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by nom 10y ago
Good to know, it makes a lot of sense. What do you think, was it written by a non-native speaker or is it comparable to something you find in a french newspaper?
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by nom 10y ago
I'm not even half through this article but I felt an urge to say this: The automatic french-english translation is so good, I didn't even notice it at all. Good work, google! Edit: now that I'm aware that the text I'm re
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by nom 10y ago
I really want to see them succeed, too. Considering that used Nokia 3310 and 3330 are still sold for around 50 Euro on Amazon or eBay here in Germany, it's fair to assume that there is a real market for new "dumbphones".
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by nom 10y ago
lol, he pinned his article on twitter.. and has also invested in Facebook. Go figure.
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by nom 10y ago
Floats are not evil. They are just not as intuitive as integers because it is impossible to represent every possible rational number in the range with a fixed number of bits. Once you get that, everything makes sense.
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by nom 10y ago
No it wasn't. All values share the same Y axis and are calculated by simulating climate models. As I understand it, the graphs show how temperature would have evolved if there was only one of the influencing factors present. They also
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by nom 10y ago
They share the same Y axis, the values are taken from simulations. From the article: "The colored temperature lines are the modeled estimates that each climate factor contributes to the overall temperature. Each factor was simulated f
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by nom 10y ago
It's also worth noting that you can die by drinking too much water in a short period of time [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
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by nom 10y ago
It works most of the time, but it doesn't work if you are drinking alcohol... your body has to 'waste' water to flush it out of your system. There are probably other drugs and medications that have the same effect (and no, ca
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by nom 10y ago
I don't think this feedback loop is working well for everybody. I know many people, including myself, who don't get the urge to drink until they're severely dehydrated, so they have to force themselfs to drink even in the abs
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by nom 10y ago
Good idea. I think they _must_ provide some sort of calibration to make it work with unknown devices. I can imagine that you can construct a special color swatch with known spectral responses, but it totally depends on how the algorithm its
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by nom 10y ago
Can you give us some insight on the whole pesticide thing? How is it possible to detect it with a spectrometer in general? Are you sure that it is impossible to detect it, even if the app is 'calibrated' to a certain object, e.g.
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by nom 10y ago
Very interesting idea! I'm guessing you didn't try to calibrate the response curves of the LEDs (in both directions)? I'm not sure if the desired effect is even feasible (assuming the receiving bandwidth is as narrow as the a
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by nom 10y ago
>Like with a grating I can see how you can obtain a spectral pattern for many wavelengths, but with a bayer array, surely you can only distinguish R, G, B. They inversed the principle: Rather than controlling the bandpass of the sensor
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by nom 10y ago
I think LEDs have a much more narrow band spectrum. At least the colored ones.
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by nom 10y ago
A Bayer filter doesn't give you single wavelengths they have a broad, somewhat overlapping spectrum. An LED display on the other hand has three distinct narrow bands. I'm not sure how their inverse algorithm could work, but I have
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by nom 10y ago
The idea itself is great, but the quality of the result obviously depends highly on the type of hardware - namely the spectra of the display and camera. An LCD has a totally different spectrum (broad) than an LED display (single wavelength)
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by nom 10y ago
It's not really common here and I actually don't know a single person who uses Siri etc. actively. I'm sure it got some attention after it was introduced, but only for the novelty of it. However, I recently bought a German Am
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by nom 10y ago
I think his first three points are the main problem. Image quality, latency and systems requirements. They are all linked. VR hardware is great step-up from the common gaming setups, where you only have to render a single scene @ 30-60 FPS
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by nom 10y ago
Oh. That's disappointing.
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by nom 10y ago
I don't think that all the computing power is just for powering their app. They're probably going to extract valuable information out of the vast amount of visual data that is streamed to their servers 24/7.
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by nom 10y ago
Who knows what's really going on behind the scenes. Considering the vast amount of information present in images and videos, they can extract all kinds of valuable data from it. Reconstruct user activities, brand preferences etc.. or i
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by nom 10y ago
Upvoted for Loriot :D
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by nom 10y ago
BTW, the old linux client (dating back to 2014) still exists and can be downloaded from the official site. It only supports text messages and files, and the messages don't show up in other clients for some reason as if they are not sto
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by nom 10y ago
Did you read the article? Yes, hypnosis can work (although an episode of 'House M.D.' comes to mind), but that doesn't relate to the point being made here.
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by nom 10y ago
It is explicitly stated in the article that the patient received a local anesthetic - the VR environment is only used to replaced the sedative (commonly used to used to distract the patient, not to remove physical pain)
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by nom 10y ago
Yeah, it's not really a surprise that VR benefits patients undergoing surgery. What would you rather see during an operation? A sterile room with surgeons roaming around you, or a virtual calming environment?
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by nom 10y ago
Hilarious indeed. Are you aware that people die? :D
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Retina iMac owners can greatly improve graphics performance of many applications(1014.org)
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by nom 10y ago
Also: all the stuff we haven't seen yet... who knows what they are doing with the vast amount of video data piped to their servers every second.

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